Obesity drugs help patients lose weight regained years after bariatric surgery

Anti-obesity medications, including semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy), can effectively help patients manage weight regained after bariatric surgery, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The research is published in the journal Obesity. “There was very little published data on how to treat post-bariatric surgery weight gain,” said Jaime Almandoz, M.D., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the […]

Read more

Q&A: More evidence needed to confirm promise of remote or decentralized trials

There’s one question that Hollings Cancer Center researcher Jennifer Dahne, Ph.D., co-director of the remote and virtual trials program at the South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute, hears more than any other as she consults with clinical researchers about how to set up remote trials, also known as decentralized trials. Will these trials overcome the barriers that make it […]

Read more

Flavanol Supplement Restores Memory in Adults With Poor Diets

Taking a daily flavanol supplement improves hippocampal-dependent memory in older adults who have a relatively poor diet, results of a large new study suggest. There’s increasing evidence that certain nutrients are important for the aging body and brain, study investigator Scott Small, MD, the Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, told […]

Read more

Simple dietary changes could reverse memory loss

Early symptoms of dementia explained in NHS video Memory loss is an accepted part of the ageing process, with associated conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease more common the older you are. While this may make it seem like it is an inevitability, research has shown diet could play a part in your cognitive health. According to a new study, published […]

Read more

The Sex Supplies You Can Pick Up On Your Next Costco Run

Literally what can’t you pick up at Costco? The answer is nothing. It’s a well-known fact that Costco can provide a number of products that make your life healthier and better — from your favorite store-brand version of your allergy meds to fitness and workout gear. But did you know that Costco can provide for your sex life too, and […]

Read more

Dispensable soap tabs to increase handwashing in poor areas

A team of design engineers and environmental hygienists from Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene, Tropical Medicine and the University of Dar es Salaam has developed a dispensable soap tab system to increase handwashing in poor areas. In their study published by PLOS ONE, the group tested a variety of approaches to help poor people lacking indoor plumbing […]

Read more

Bruce Willis daughter opens up about when her fathers dementia started to show

Bruce Willis: Dr Amir discusses frontotemporal dementia In February, Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, but his 29-year-old daughter knew something was up with her father for a “long time”. Sharing her experience to Vogue, Tallulah penned: “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness.” Chalking up Bruce’s behaviour to hearing loss, the family would quip to each […]

Read more

Special issue aims to deepen the conversation around cerebral palsy

Although cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood-onset disability, there are very few evidence-based clinical practice guidelines or recommendations on how to treat and manage this condition. A special issue of the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, guest-edited by Rachel Byrne, Deborah Gaebler-Spira, Michael Green, and Heakyung Kim, in partnership with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and published by IOS […]

Read more

Artificial intelligence system predicts consequences of gene modifications

Researchers at Gladstone Institutes, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to help them understand how large networks of interconnected human genes control the function of cells, and how disruptions in those networks cause disease. Large language models, also known as foundation models, are AI systems that learn fundamental knowledge […]

Read more
1 2 3 907